Venue: Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London SE1 9DD

The annual BSMGP Discussion Day, whilst open to all, is particularly intended for stained glass practitioners; student, amateur and professional, giving an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas based on a program of topical presentations.
The program is planned by Caroline Swash FMGP, former head of the PgCert Glass course at Central Saint Martins, herself an experienced teacher and practitioner, draws together a mix of speakers, all successful contemporary glass artists, who will explore the ways in which collaboration can enable and enhance new work. With the loss of so many large studios, increasingly artists work in isolation meaning that such relationships between artist and client, artist and a larger studio or affiliation to a group of likeminded individuals becomes pivotal to their success.

The day is kindly hosted by the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, the day after their annual Stevens Competition Prize Giving, in the hope that as many students as possible will take the opportunity to attend whilst in London.

Tickets are £25 or for students and tutors £15 including sandwich lunch.

For more information on the speakers and how to book tickets, see this link

SPRING LECTURE

Friday 4 March 6.15pm for 6.45pm start

Although Ukrainian stained glass has been terra incognita for many years, it appears to be a fascinating episode in the history of European art. This illustrated lecture traces the history of stained glass in Ukraine, focusing on the 19th-20th-century glazing.

At the turn of the 20th century, Ukraine witnessed a sudden renaissance in the visual arts echoing the Aesthetic Movement. It was a luminous age in the history of stained glass – the flourishing of ‘secession’ and art nouveau in Western and Eastern Ukraine respectively. Stained glass windows became frequent features in ecclesiastic and secular architecture, emphasising the visual and aesthetic qualities of Byzantine iconography and Ukrainian folk-art.

During World War I, the revolution of 1917, the civil war (1918-1920) and World War II, a great amount of stained glass was destroyed. The new soviet regime banned religion, extensively demolishing churches and devastating sacred art. The Soviet era left a complex legacy, which embraces the early avant-garde, grand avenues and megalomania in urban architecture. More than that, it produced an infrastructure of public space for a secular society, where monumental arts, stained and slab glass in particular, played a crucial role. Not always popular, it nevertheless, left traces of skilful experimental artistic approaches. The Soviet regime expanded monumental slab and stained glass in the decoration of universities, schools, hospitals, libraries, canteens, and underground stations – the genuine palaces for the people, dedicated to the ritual of commuting to work. To dismiss the Soviet Ukrainian public art, enriched by architectural glass, would be a huge mistake. A new period of stained glass development began with the independence of Ukraine.

Although Ukrainian stained glass has multiple connotations and cannot be understood in isolation from its historical context, it gives us an absolute and lasting legacy of variety and virtuosity in glazing, which glorifies the beauty of light.

Glasswork – open studio – beginners/improvers (DMF027SGR)

There are still some spaces available, which need to be taken up by the end of January for the course to continue to run.

This course is run by CSM Alumna Pippa Stacey and is specifically designed for all levels of experience.

Beginners will be able to learn some basic fusing skills producing a series of creative samples and depending on your progress will complete an A5 fused panel or bowl. Returning learners should bring along their current project to work on
Adult Education Centre
100 Granville Park, London SE13 7DU
07 January 2016, Thursday7.30pm – 9.30pm
11 weeks
Cost: £160.00 no concessions

The 100 Best Stained Glass Sites in London
Brand new book by Caroline Swash

The architectural glass featured in this new book includes a wide range from the Middle Ages to the present day, set out according to location. The book is copiously illustrated on every page, in full colour.

No amount of photographic skill can replace the experience of actually seeing glass in buildings. I have arranged the sites for ease of visiting with up to date contacts and opening times just a click away.

Areas covered are the City, West End and East End, Canary Wharf, Greenwich, Battersea, Fulham, Putney and Barnes, Lambeth and Westminster, Kensington and Notting Hill. Outer suburbs include Dulwich, Slough, Kensal Rise and Walthamstow.

Among the many artists featured are those of the current generation working in architecture, including CSM Glass alumni Lucy Amsden, Benjamin Finn, Georgina Griffiths, Ruth Taylor Jacobson, Nicola Kantorowicz, Kate Maestri and Matt Reed.

Special offer for all Central Saint Martins Alumni
The Retail price is £35.00. For all Central Saint Martins Alumni there is a special price of £27.50 including packing and postage in the UK and Eire:- Please send your order to Caroline Swash at 106 Willoughby House, Barbican EC2Y 8BL

Teepee Glass celebrate 10 years of working together with a group exhibition at the Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral. TP10YRS features new work based on the theme of ‘10’.

Other works will be on display such as lightboxes, glass pictures, bowls, vessels and jewellery. All items are available to buy with 40% of the proceeds going to the Museum.

The exhibition coincides with Ely Cathedral’s prestigious annual Christmas Gift and Food Fair on the 13th and 14th November 2015 where the Cathedral opens its doors to over 150 exhibitors of which the Museum will be one.

Teepee Glass members are all Central Saint Martins glass alumni and include Andrew Boddington, Maria Fagan, Iain Gutteridge, Brett Manley, Alex R, Pippa Stacey and Wendy Stone.
They all met at Central Saint Martins in 2005 and formed ‘Teepee Glass’ after having spent ten nights under canvas at the Glass Biennale at Stourbridge. Since then they have enjoyed exhibiting in venues including the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge, The De Morgan Foundation in Wandsworth and were regular exhibitors at the much missed Cochrane Gallery in Holborn.
Taking their inspiration from people, the beauty of nature, living in the city, optical illusions, playing with light and form, and being led by the material itself, their award-winning works range from jewellery to windows to installations all of which display their diverse glass skills and craftsmanship. teepeeglass.com.

Edited, Rose Watban, Forward, Alan J. Poole & Intro. Jennifer Hawkins Opie. N.M.S. Enterprises Ltd. National Museums Scotland. Edinburgh. GB. 2015.
ISBN 978-1-905267-83-5. £40.00 + p&p.
A lavish and extensive catalogue covering this internationally acknowledge collection of UK based Contemporary Glass Artists. With 334 pages of images and text by over 150 Artists, this is a not to be missed publication for both Glass Collectors, Glass Artists, aspiring Students, Museum Curators and anyone with a general interested in Contemporary Glass and its recent history in the UK over the last thirty to forty years. You’ve seen the exhibitions at the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh and the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, now buy the book.
Available from Alan J. Poole.
Cost: £40.00 + p&p (1st Class within UK & Airmail elsewhere).
Tel: 020 7821 6040. Email: alanjpoole@aol.com
Website: www.dankleinglass.com/books/books.html

CSM Glass Alumni Emma Rawson, Pippa Davismoon and Charlotte Morrison show new work in the exhibition ‘Objects and Words in Transition’ at Barbican Library, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS throughout April 2015.

Finalists for the British Glass Biennale, part of the International Festival of Glass have been announced.

76 artists have been selected for this prestigious award from more than 200 applications. 13 of the artists are students and there are 122 pieces set to be exhibited at the British Glass Biennale which runs from 28 May – 28 June in Stourbridge, West Midlands.

Amongst the exhibitors will be three Central Saint Martins glass alumni:Helen Maurer, Nicholas Collins and Amanda J Simmons.
Well done to you guys for having been selected for the show.